Homelab Build Log #9: Prometheus Monitoring
Overview In the previous post, I pulled together the overall IDP structure using Helm chart-based project templates and ArgoCD ApplicationSet. This post covers how I added Prometheus and Grafana for metrics, plus Loki for centralized log collection and analysis. Together, they form the monitoring stack for the homelab Kubernetes cluster. The Need for Monitoring When operating a homelab Kubernetes cluster, I need to keep an eye on node and pod status, resource usage such as CPU and memory, whether applications are behaving normally, and the logs that help explain failures. For that, I used the following tools. ...